On Wednesday 7th August, we hosted our fifth and final summer evening meadow walk of the season at the magnificent Mowley Valley in North West Herefordshire. The valley is currently managed as a large scale habitat mosaic consisting of species rich grasslands, semi-natural ancient woodland, scrapes and rough edges and all dissected by the River Arrow. The focus of the… Read more →
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Wood Meadows with George Peterken
Kicking off our series of spring talks entitled Meadows, Mosaics and Mitigating Climate Change George Peterken, renowned woodland ecologist, nature conservation advisor and author of the book Meadows (2013 British Wildlife Collection), gave a fascinating presentation on the topic of wood meadows. After first introducing the concept and showing some examples of traditional wood meadows in Europe, specifically in the Baltic states… Read more →
Making Mosaics – 13th October 2020
Scrub Management with Livestock – Discussion Thanks to everyone who joined the latest Herefordshire Meadows Group Discussion, it was great to be able to return to the field. At this first event back, Rich Thomas of Risbury Court took us through how he has been managing his scrub, grassland, orchard and woodland areas. During the walk, Rich shared his experience… Read more →